Hugin ASA a annonc? aujourd'hui la nomination de Emily H. Price au poste de Directeur commercial du Groupe

A compter du 1er mars 2006 Mme Price prendra le poste de Directeur commercial du leader paneuropéen de services de communication et de distribution qui offre des services de distribution pour les Relations Investisseurs et les RP auprès de 1 200 sociétés européennes dans 19 pays européens.

" Avec l'expansion du Groupe Hugin dans le domaine des services RP, à travers l'élargissement de son offre aux professionnels des relations publiques, sa concentration sur des services de qualité élevée et la consolidation dans son secteur d'activité, nous avons besoin d'un Directeur commercial avec l'expérience stratégique et des services commerciaux nécessaire pour piloter notre équipe commerciale européenne. Emily Price apporte au poste les excellents résultats obtenus dans le management de l'entrepreneuriat et des ventes et elle possède, je pense, l'expérience du secteur des services, les connaissances technologiques ainsi que la vision internationale nécessaires pour faire de Hugin un vrai leader paneuropéen ", dit Tor Bækkelund, Directeur Général du Groupe Hugin.

Prior to joining Hugin, Emily Price, worked 5 years with Thomson/Raw communication as Sales Director in Europe. Prior to her work in Thomson/Raw Communication she has been instrumental initiating and working with several start ups in Europe and the south East Asia.

"With the existing industry opportunities, the IR & PR Communication industry has the opportunity to be a high growth, profitable space to be in. I look forward to working with Hugin Group employees in Europe to share our future and to meet the needs of our current and potential customers", says Emily Price.

Please find a photo of Mrs. Price on the following link:

http://www.directnews.de/servlets/LoadBinaryServlet/1063228/Emily_Price.jpg

For more information, visit www.hugingroup.com

Journalist and media enquiries contact:

Tor Baekkelund, CEO +47 41 69 52 41

About Hugin

Hugin is Europe's leading provider of innovative solutions for connecting communication professionals with their target audiences. Hugin was founded in 1995. In just a few years it became one of Europe's leading distributors of unedited corporate information.

Hugin currently distributes press releases on behalf of over 1200 companies throughout 19 European countries and employs approximately 80 people in 9 countries – Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.

Hugin's core business is offering real-time quality information by providing communication professionals with the most innovative, straight through processing solution for the delivery of unedited facts to their target audiences. Through is recent merger with Directnews, Hugin also offer tailored research and management of media data as well as press release distribution to targeted media world wide.

Hugin offers investors and journalists this real-time news through its Internet portal at http://www.huginonline.com/ and via free subscription as an email alert service. Online portals, data vendors and newswires are provided access to real-time feeds of all our news.

For more information go to http://www.hugingroup.com